Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham will host a remote press conference following the weekly Greater Manchester COVID-19 Emergency Committee.
The Mayor will be joined remotely by Chief Constable Ian Hopkins, Greater Manchester Police, to discuss the latest on Greater Manchester’s response to the impact of the current coronavirus outbreak.
The Conference is due to begin at 1.30
Earlier Andy tweeted that he will be addressing the change in @RishiSunak’’s approach from “you will not be forgotten” a few weeks ago to “we can’t protect every household” yesterday. National unity is what will get us through this. And that is built by looking after everyone fairly.
There has been a significant increase in the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19.Last week’s figure of 2263 has now reached 3817 while deaths have doubled from 279 to 592.
There was some good news on hospital admissions.Last week they were standing at 52 per day ,that has fallen to 41
Bed occupancy is running at the same rate as last week around 55-60 per cent but most worryingly the number of care homes across Greater Manchester reporting cases of Covid-19 has increased from eighty two last week to 182.
Chief Constable Ian Hopkins thanked the media for the stay at home message relayed over the Easter weekend,he described the weekend as challenging adding that there were over 1,000 incidents over the Bank Holiday.He pointed out that police do not have the power of entry under the Coronavirus legislation so they have to use other measures such as anti social legislation.
The Police Chief also raised his concerns over speeding on the region’s road.Traffic levels are currently at the levels of the 1950’s but some motorists are taking advantage of the empty roads.
In the first week of April 1,145 people broke the 30 mile speed limit and there was a highest recorded speed of 81mph while on the motorways where were 264 people detected speeding, the highest speed recorded being 129mph.
On the Greater Manchester Economy the Mayor revealed that around a quarter of Greater Manchester’s support cash has been paid out to local businesses circa £130m.
